Jazz and 'The Mountaintop': Rep unveils lineup

Downtown theater to revisit 'Hammer,' stage new works

Playwright Katori Hall wrote the award-winning work "The Mountaintop," an imaginative meditation on the last night of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life. San Diego Repertory Theatre will stage the play's West Coast premiere next March as part of the theater's 2012-13 season.
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Playwright Katori Hall wrote the award-winning work "The Mountaintop," an imaginative meditation on the last night of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life. San Diego Repertory Theatre will stage the play's West Coast premiere next March as part of the theater's 2012-13 season.
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Woodhouse will direct the piece, which the Rep says was inspired by weekly jazz sessions that Castellanos has hosted in various downtown spaces for some 15 years. Montoya - a San Diego native whose most recent work, "American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose," was just staged at La Jolla Playhouse - is weaving together a story of San Diego and Tijuana's cultural heritage and history, to be told through music, dance and spoken word. He'll be joined onstage by a jazz quintet led by Castellanos.

• A new American play (to be announced): One more as-yet-unidentified production will be part of the theater's season; the Rep says it's in final talks for a "provocative and very funny new American play."

More info on Rep tickets and programming: (619) 544-1000 or sdrep.org.